Filopodial actin bundles are not necessary for microtubule advance into the peripheral domain of Aplysia neuronal growth cones

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1360-1369

  Burnette, Dylan T ^a   Schaefer, Andrew W ^a   Ji, Lin ^b   Danuser, Gaudenz ^b   Forscher, Paul ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEBBISTATIN; CYTOCHALASIN B;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILOPODIUM; FLOW RATE; GROWTH CONE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; STEADY STATE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOCHALASIN B; GROWTH CONES; MICROTUBULES; MYOSIN TYPE II; PSEUDOPODIA;

APLYSIA;

EID: 36749017979     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1655     Document Type: Article

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